From f94d27462a7f964e3c77ae9fc35a6af8218ac143 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:42:15 -0400 Subject: books: rework to-read page --- books/to-read.page | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) create mode 100644 books/to-read.page (limited to 'books/to-read.page') diff --git a/books/to-read.page b/books/to-read.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..37cc3c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/to-read.page @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +Books To Read +-------------- + +Novels +============== + +* Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Foer +* The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn +* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon +* The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen +* The Magic Mountain, thomas mann +* Grapes of Wrath +* The Illuminatus! Trilogy + +Old Classics: + +* The Plum in the Golden Vase +* Romance of the Three Kingdoms +* Dream of the Red Chamber + +Science/Tech +=============== + +* Engines of Creation +* The Society of Mind by Minsky +* Mind Children +* War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel De Landa +* Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Holger Kantz Thomas Schreiber +* Field Notes on Science & Nature + +Philosophy +=============== + +* The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir +* She Came to Stay, Simone de Beauvoir +* The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir +* The Order of Things, Foucault +* Structuralism, Piaget +* Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault +* The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt + +History and Politics +======================= + +* Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke +* The Art of Intelligence by Henry Crumpton (CIA history) +* The Conscience of a Conservative "by" Barry Goldwater + +Chinese History: + +* A Concise History of China, j.a.g. roberts +* Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History, keith schoppa +* On China, kissinger + +Other Non-Fiction +===================== + +* Looking for a Ship, John McPhee (merchant marine) +* Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee (shipping) +* The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes -- cgit v1.2.3